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The "most endangered historic places" in the US are especially diverse this year. The 2006 list, released recently by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, ranges from the entire hurricane-damaged Gulf Coast of Mississippi to the "Survivors' Staircase" of the World Trade Center to the funky 1950s-era architecture of "Doo Wop" summer resorts on the New Jersey shore. The staircase, all that remains of the twin towers after the 9/11 terrorist attack on New York, has taken on the status of a shrine. But it stands in the way of plans for a new WTC. The most endangered places and their sites, as ranked by the National Trust: